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FA CEO Martin Glenn has been "given a vote of confidence by the board for his handling of Mark Sampson's dismissal" as England's women's national team manager, according to Matt Slater of the PA. The board met at Wembley on Monday for the "first time since the furore surrounding Sampson arose" and t...

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EPL side Sunderland paid Margaret Byrne, its "disgraced" former CEO, a sum in the region of £750,000 last year "in exchange for her signing a confidentiality agreement," according to Louise Taylor of the London GUARDIAN. Byrne resigned l ...

The U.K. government’s GREAT Britain campaign and global sports and technology brand McLaren announced a year-long partnership for '17 which will see the campaign featured on the McLaren-Honda MCL32 Formula 1 cars. The partnership is designed to encourage people around the world to visit, do bu ...

Members of the Irish women’s national football team decided not to attend the squad’s first scheduled training session of the week "despite accepting an invitation" from the FA of Ireland to attend mediation late on Wednesday afternoon, but a "resolution in the dispute highlighted at th ...

Sky Sports, which will broadcast the Masters this week, is "elevating golf to one of the mainstays of the network with its own channel, seemingly at the expense of rugby union," according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. Sky is "revamping" its service this summer with cricket, Formula 1 and ...

Ireland's women’s national football team "threatened to go on strike" in a row over its treatment by the FA of Ireland, according to Aaron Rogan of the LONDON TIMES. The team is scheduled to play Slovakia on Monday but 14 players and officials from the players' union held a press conferen ...

Richard Branson's "latest venture" is Virgin Sport, a series of "festival-style events that will take place in the U.K. and U.S. this year," according to Lucy Handley of CNBC. The two-year-old company will run its first event in London's Hackney later this month, and Virgin Sport Global CEO Mar ...

Essex County Cricket Club is "optimistic" that it will play a Twenty20 match at the London Stadium next season "on a drop-in pitch that will serve as a trial run for the two 2019 World Cup fixtures to be held at the ground," according to Elizabeth Ammon of the LONDON TIMES. The discussions between E ...

Vodafone is close to agreeing to a £20M ($25M) naming rights deal "for the London Olympic Stadium," according to Paul Kelso of SKY NEWS. Negotiations between the telecom and stadium owner the London Legacy Development Corp. "have been ongoing for several months." But they are understood to be ...

Ascot racecourse announced its "intention to go it alone with a new on-course gambling operation called AscotBet just days after 56 of Britain’s tracks revealed plans to start up their own version of pool betting," according to Rob Wright of the LONDON TIMES. The changes have come about "becau ...

Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger’s backroom team is "increasingly worried" about its future "amid plans to overhaul Arsenal’s structure," according to Sami Mokbel of the London DAILY MAIL. The hierarchy intends to "make a number of ...